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 AppRISE: Application for Readiness In Schools and Learning Evaluation 
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Be one of the first to use our gamified and scalable universal screener in your schools, while simultaneously helping us validate the app and ensure that we deliver trusted results.

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Screenshots from within the game

What is this app?

About
  • Developed by researchers at MIT, UCSF, UConn, and Curious Learning
  • A free open-source mobile app
  • Measures a wide range of literacy and cognitive skills
  • As reliable as conventional assessment tools

For Every Young Child
  • Designed for all young children 3 to 8, including English learners and those with or at-risk for developing learning disabilities.​​

Universal Screener 
  • Gauges school readiness
  • Identifies risk for reading & other learning disabilities that will allow early intervention
  • Monitors progress over time
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​Engaging
  • A child-friendly, gamified app that takes place in a cohesive virtual world

​Scalable
  • Individual or small group administration with minimal, untrained adult supervision

Evidence-based
  • Developed by researchers based on research. You can help us by being part of our validation to ensure all teachers, pediatricians and families have a trusted tool.​​

Who can participate?

Schools and Districts:
  • with a large population of diverse students.
  • that are motivated to implement universal screening and screening for dyslexia.
  • with students in preschool to grade 3. 
  • with teachers and parents who want to change student outcome!​​​

What's in it for the schools and families?

  • ​No cost to the schools or families

  • Early access to the app

  • Receive results from the app and established tools (e.g. DIBELS, Woodcock Johnson)

  • Receive related products such as updates on normed scores, dashboard feature, individualized resources

  • Receive early intervention with GraphoGame, the only gamified and evidence-based reading instructional computer program to support all your students or only those at-risk for dyslexia. We will work with your schools and families to implement 

TIMELINE

Here are the typical steps once we discuss and agree on general terms and time frame: 
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    1.We complete any IRB forms, district application and any other paperwork 

​    2. We provide information sessions to districts, schools,  teachers and parents upon request.  

    3. Teachers hand out and collect consent forms from families. 


    4. We come in with our trained assessors to schools on your preferred dates for assessment. The full version takes about 3 hours per child. It can be 30 min per session spread over time, or all done in a day--in our experience working with kids for long hours, they like the individual attention! We expect to work with 5-6 children a day, and to be in each school for 1-2 weeks. 
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    5. For qualified schools, we will return at another time later in the year for a shorter session. 
Assessment Domains
AppRISE provides a comprehensive assessment of foundational skills, targeted assessments in any of these domains: 

Pre-literacy
  • Rapid automatized naming
  • Letter name/sound knowledge
  • Blending words
  • Vocabulary

Literacy
  • Sight word and pseudoword reading
Developmental
  • Motor speed
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Executive function and cognition
  • Nonverbal reasoning
  • Vocabulary
  • Visuospatial and auditory short term and working memory
  • Processing speed
  • Directed attention
  • Inhibition
  • Set shifting
Contact us now to start using AppRISE in your school district this Spring!
One of the best resources we have to fuel our research comes from the generous and visionary support of people like you – people who share our quest to improve the quality of learning for children.

School District Partners

San Ramon Valley USD
  Live Oak Elementary School
Pleasanton USD
  Vintage Hills Elementary School
  Donlon Elementary school
Burlingame USD
  Washington Elementary School
St. IsidoreCatholic School
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Partners and Funders

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Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation
Anonymous Foundation

The Potter Family
Raymond and Laura DePole
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This project was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through UCSF-CTSI Grant Number UL1 TR000004. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.
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